Massachusetts Statutes

Section 19A. There is hereby established within the executive office of environmental affairs the board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals. The board shall consist of eleven members. One member, who shall be the chairman of the board, shall be the commi…

Section 19B. (a) The board shall adopt, and may from time to time amend and repeal, regulations as it deems necessary for the implementation, administration, and enforcement of sections nineteen through nineteen J, inclusive. Said regulations shall be adopted, amended, or repeale…

Section 19C. The board may license individuals to be hazardous waste site cleanup professionals. Each application for an initial license or license renewal shall be accompanied by a fee established by the board that shall be set to cover all costs of processing the application, a…

Section 19D. Effective on and after one year after publication in the Massachusetts Register of the first regulations promulgated pursuant to section nineteen B, no person shall be, or act as, or advertise as, or hold himself out to be, or represent himself as being, a hazardous …

Section 19E. Personnel or authorized agents of the board or of the department may at all reasonable times enter any known or suspected site, vessel, or other location, whether public or private, for the purpose of investigating, sampling, inspecting, or copying any records, condi…

Section 19F. Whenever it appears that there is a violation of any provision of sections nineteen through nineteen J, inclusive, or of any regulation, license, or order issued or adopted thereunder, the board may issue to a person causing or contributing, or likely to cause or con…

Section 19G. (1) The board may assess a civil administrative penalty on a person who fails to comply with any provision of any regulation, order, or license issued or adopted by the board, or with any provision of sections nineteen through nineteen J, inclusive, subject to the fo…

Section 19H. Any person aggrieved by a determination by the board and who has legal standing to do so, may request an adjudicatory hearing before the board if the determination is made in an adjudicatory proceeding as that term is defined and used in chapter thirty A. Any such de…

Section 19I. The superior court department of the trial court shall have jurisdiction to enjoin violations of, or to grant such additional relief as it deems necessary or appropriate to secure compliance with, the provisions of sections nineteen to nineteen J, inclusive, or of an…

Section 19J. Any person who violates section nineteen D, or who knowingly makes any materially false or inaccurate statement in any application, record, report, plan, design, or statement which said person submits to the board or the department, or who knowingly makes any materia…

Section 2. The office and its appropriate departments and divisions shall carry out the state environmental policy and in so doing they shall: (1) develop policies, plans, and programs for carrying out their assigned duties; (2) provide for the management of air, water and land r…

Section 20. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Public agencies'', any city, town, county, district, or other political subdivision, authority, public corporation, board or commiss…

Section 21. The secretary, in conjunction with the secretary of administration and finance, shall design and implement a bidding process for the competitive procurement of electric generation on behalf of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, divisi…

Section 22. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Allowance'', an authorization to emit a fixed amount of carbon dioxide. ''Cap and trade program'', a policy approach for controlling em…

Section 23. There is hereby established within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs a state off-highway vehicle advisory committee. The committee shall advise the secretary and the department of conservation and recreation, the department of fish and game, the…

Section 24. There shall be within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs an office of the state climatologist, which shall be under the supervision and control of a state climatologist to be appointed by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs and the …

Section 25. (a) There shall be a water infrastructure advisory committee to monitor the progress of closing the gap in funding for water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure. (b) The advisory committee shall consist of: the secretary of energy and environmental affairs or a…

Section 26. (a) There shall be within the division of marine fisheries a coordinated program to market seafood landed in the commonwealth and to take other actions to increase consumer demand and preference for local seafood products, to support the commonwealth's fishing and sea…

Section 27. (a)(1) There shall be within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs a program to facilitate, through municipal ordinances or by-laws, the transfer of development rights to protect conservation values and encourage development through market incentive…

Section 28. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Bedding'', any bedding material, including, but not limited to, a mattress, mattress pad, mattress cover, sheeting, pillow, blanket, com…

Section 29. There shall be an office of environmental justice and equity within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs, which shall be administered by an undersecretary of environmental justice and equity who shall be appointed and may be removed by the secretar…

Section 2A. The secretary shall be the state natural resource trustee and may compromise or settle any claim for damages for injury and for destruction or loss of natural resources, including the costs of assessing and evaluating the injury, destruction or loss, incurred or suffe…

Section 3. The secretary shall conduct comprehensive planning with respect to the functions of the office and shall coordinate the activities and programs of the departments and divisions within the office. He shall continually review the operations of the office with a view towa…

Section 30. The executive office of energy and environmental affairs shall establish and periodically update a methodology for determining the suitability of sites for clean energy generation facilities, clean energy storage facilities and clean transmission and distribution infr…

Section 31. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Charger'', a device having at least 1 charging port and connector for charging electric vehicles; provided, however, that ''ch…

Section 4. In order to enable him to coordinate and improve the operations of all departments, divisions and other administrative units within the office, the secretary shall have the following powers and duties concerning any power or duty assigned to any such department, divisi…

Section 4A. There is hereby established within the executive office of environmental affairs a coastal zone management office which shall be administered by a director who shall be appointed and may be removed by the secretary. The director shall be a person of skill and experien…

Section 4C. (a) The ocean waters and ocean-based development of the commonwealth, within the ocean management planning area described in this section, shall be under the oversight, coordination and planning authority of the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, hereinaft…

Section 5. The secretary shall have the power to appoint one or more program review boards consisting of individuals who have demonstrated interest and competence in matters relevant to the area under review so that each major program area within the office shall be reviewed by s…

Section 6. Subject to appropriation, the secretary, with the approval of the governor, may appoint such experts and other assistants as he shall deem necessary to perform the functions of his office, provided that the provisions of chapter thirty-one and section nine A of chapter…

Section 7. In the executive office shall be an office of the secretary, a department of environmental protection, a department of conservation and recreation, a department of agricultural resources, a department of fish and game, a department of public utilities, and a department…

Section 7B. The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in consultation with the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs and department of geosciences shall appoint a professional geologist to be state geologist. The state geologist shall perform …

Section 8. The department of environmental protection shall include the bureau of environmental sanitation and all the powers and duties assigned to said bureau which relate to environmental health, air pollution control, noise regulation, community sanitation, water supply and w…

Section 8A. There shall be established within the executive office of environmental affairs the water resources commission hereinafter in this section and in sections eight B to eight F, inclusive, called the commission, which shall consist of the secretary of the executive offic…

Section 8B. The secretary shall be chairman of said commission. The responsibilities and duties of said commission shall include:— (a) development of a water resources management policy framework within which the water resource policies, plans and management programs of the sever…

Section 8C. The commission shall further be responsible for updating the Massachusetts water supply policy statement at intervals which shall not exceed five years. The commission shall incorporate any recommendations of municipalities and regional planning agencies as appropriat…

Section 8D. The commission may establish rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper administration of sections eight A to eight F, inclusive, and shall annually submit to the budget commissioner the estimates required by sections three and four of chapter twenty-nin…

Section 8E. The commission shall be staffed by a director appointed by the secretary, who shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one nor the provisions of section nine A of chapter thirty, and by such technical and clerical staff as the secretary, subject to app…

Section 8F. The commission shall meet at least once a month, on the second Monday, and may meet more often as the members may determine. The members shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in connection with their duties and the appointed members of the commission shall, subjec…

Section 9. The office may accept any gifts or grants of money or property, whether real or personal, from any source, public or private, including, but not limited to, the United States or its agencies, in order to assist it in discharging its duties. Grants and gifts of money sh…

Section 1. This chapter shall be known as the Coal Mining Regulatory and Reclamation Act and shall govern all coal mining operations which are conducted in the commonwealth.

Section 10. Whenever the commissioner makes a finding of fact that a mine fire, refuse bank fire or subsidence resulting from mining is at a stage where immediate action is necessary and an emergency exists and no other person or agency is acting to control the condition, and the…

Section 11. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations which will protect the quality of water and water table throughout the commonwealth. Such rules and regulations shall include a reclamation policy that will maintain reasonable stability of the water level and wa…

Section 12. Whenever a mine is abandoned or closed, the owner shall make a final survey of all workings not represented on the maps and plans of such mine, and shall properly enter the results upon the maps of the mine so as to show the exact relations of the most advanced workin…

Section 13. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to supercede any local zoning regulations.

Section 14. Any public official authorized by the commissioner of any municipality in which coal mining is occurring shall have the right to inspect any of the mined or affected areas in the course of the normal performance of his duties.